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Title: The Sailor's Word-Book
An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some
More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to
Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

Author: William Henry Smyth

Editor: Sir Edward Belcher

Release Date: July 7, 2008 [EBook #26000]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE
SAILOR'S WORD-BOOK:
AN ALPHABETICAL DIGEST
OF
NAUTICAL TERMS,
INCLUDING SOME MORE ESPECIALLY MILITARY AND SCIENTIFIC, BUT USEFUL TO
SEAMEN; AS WELL AS ARCHAISMS OF EARLY VOYAGERS, ETC.

BY THE LATE

ADMIRAL W. H. SMYTH,
K.S.F., D.C.L., &c.

REVISED FOR THE PRESS BY

VICE-ADMIRAL SIR E. BELCHER,
K.C.B., &c. &c.

[Device]

LONDON:

BLACKIE AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW;
AND GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH.
1867.

GLASGOW:
W. G. BLACKIE AND CO., PRINTERS,
VILLAFIELD.

Transcriber's Note:

Dialect, variant and obsolete spellings remain as printed. Minor
typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst
significant changes have been listed at the end of the text.
Superscript characters are preceded by the ^ character. Greek text
has been transliterated and is shown between {braces}. The oe
ligature is shown as [oe], and [sq] represents the square-root
symbol.

THE EDITOR'S PREFACE.

The recent loss of Admiral William Henry Smyth, noticed as it was by the
leading periodicals, will have recalled to many, not only the so